Fogbuster

And the people of Iraq are returning home again, to start their new lives without dictatorship...

Returnees Find a Capital Transformed
Security Is Better, But Freedoms Are Tempered by Fear

By Sudarsan Raghavan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, November 23, 2007; A01

BAGHDAD, Nov. 22 -- Iraqis are returning to their homeland by the hundreds each day, by bus, car and plane, encouraged by weeks of decreased violence and increased security, or compelled by visa and residency restrictions in neighboring countries and the depletion of their savings.

Those returning make up only a tiny fraction of the 2.2 million Iraqis who have fled Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. But they represent the largest number of returnees since February 2006, when sectarian violence began to rise dramatically, speeding the exodus from Iraq.

Many find a Baghdad they no longer recognize, a city altered by blast walls and sectarian rifts. Under the improved security, Iraqis are gingerly testing how far their new liberties allow them to go. But they are also facing many barriers, geographical and psychological, hardened by violence and mistrust.

Days after she returned from Syria, 23-year-old Melal al-Zubaidi and a friend went to the market on a pleasant night to eat ice cream. It was a short walk, yet unthinkable only a month ago for a woman in the capital. Still, her parents were nervous, and Zubaidi wore a head scarf and an ankle-length skirt to avoid angering Islamic extremists.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...201568_pf.html


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Fogbuster

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Good news comes along, and people ignore it. And then the same people decry the plight of the world.

Not THAT is unbelievable.



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PressCoverage

PressCoverage

the damage is done, the people are already dead or seperated....

"you've made a desert and call it peace"

Fogbuster

Beg to differ: "I" didn't make any desert. Saddam and his fanatical loyalists have made a desert. And now the U.S. is cleaning it up and re-building it into a livable and pleasant place to live. In five years you will be complaining that those new "smart-azz" Iraqis are taking jobs away from Americans!!


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PressCoverage

too funny.... the allagorical quote i presented was from Tacitus of Rome, and yet here you are taking it literally and personally...

regardless, i don't believe there was ethnic cleansing on either side of the Tigris before 2003... but, you keep on pretending we've "fixed" things if it pleases you...

i will? please stop presenting fact based on what you feel... it isolates you further...

Fogbuster

Tacitus?? Wow. That is impressive!!

("allegorical" -- try a spell-checker sometime, Tacitus would want you to.. )

Yeah, you *must* be right. We'll just pretend all those mass graves filled with hundreds of thousands of Iranian and Kurdish people don't exist. Saddam was mis-understood. Sure thing, Pressy.


Jeez! Can't a guy make a prediction anymore?!! Oh, I guess the prospects of my prediction being correct would toss huge boulders through the theory that the entire U.S. effort in Iraq has been a mistake, so you don't want to deal with it. I understand.


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DarrylS

Blah, blah, blah.. George Bush good, Iraq invasion and occupation good.. ignore everything else.. everything is wonderful in the mideast..it never ceases to amaze me to see the people who continually criticize the MSM, use it to their advantage when it fits.. perhaps the MSM is just a figment of the imagination.. or a convenient RW talking point.

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Fogbuster

Hm-m-m-m, where have we seen this exact same post before??? .... Oh, I know, in two other threads!!!


Running low on rebuttals, are you?? Got to use the same old, same old, again and again??





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DarrylS

No less than your tired moonie responses.. lets all try some pure love, the world will be a better place.

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"Being the best doesn't mean you always win. It just means you win more than anyone else".. tweet from Kurt Warner to Tom Brady.